{"id":1961,"date":"2020-05-29T04:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccomsys.net\/million-dollar-idea\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2020-07-22T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T08:47:31","slug":"education-transformation-4-0-meera-shanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccomdigital.in\/blog\/education-transformation-4-0-meera-shanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Transformation 4.0 – Meera Shanker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prof. Meera Shanker, Director, JDBI of Management Studies, SNDT Women\u2019s University, Mumbai, India.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Degrees:<\/strong><\/p>\n

PhD (Organizational Behavior & Human Resource),Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur ( IIT, Kanpur), India. MA (Psychology), BA (Sanskrit, English and Psychology) University of Gorakhpur, India<\/p>\n

Brief Biography\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meera\u00a0 Shanker ( PhD) is a Senior Professor in the area of Organizational Behavior and Human Recourses Management at the JD Bajaj Inst. Mgmt. SNDT Women\u2019s University , Mumbai.\u00a0 Currently working as a Director, JDBIMS, SNDTWU. She has worked as a trainer in Oriental Insurance Corporation, as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor and Head, Department of Education Management, JDBIMS, SNDTWU.\u00a0 Earlier she held faculty positions at several other academic institutions as well as conducted workshops at various places like NITIE, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), URICM, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.<\/p>\n

Dr. Shanker has over 22 years of active teaching, consultancy and research experience in the field of Organizational Behavior, Human Resources management, Leadership, Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Stress Management, Emotional Intelligence, organizational culture etc.<\/p>\n

She has authored two books on organizational Behavior. To her credit, she has over 40 referred Journal Research papers and research articles. \u00a0 She delivered over 38 presentations at several national and international level conferences, which includes \u2013 Austria, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Canada, Indonesia, England, and South Africa, etc. Her research work is indexed in scopus, jstor and ebsco. She is a member of various professional bodies.<\/p>\n

While the covid-19 situation has put forward many challenges currently, it has also created great opportunities. So, we are putting together an industry story on \u2018Opportunities & challenges for universities, institutes & colleges in a Covid-19 world\u2019.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

SURVEY QUESTIONS<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. What have been your key challenges during the lockdown?<\/strong>
    \nWe were not well prepared or I can say could not foresee that we may have to work from home during Lockdown, which is still continuing to curb and slow down the Impact of Corona Virus. Nobody knows how many days it will go on. Everything has become challenging, starting from admissions, placement, maintaining quality of education, examinations etc.<\/p>\n

    Social isolation was disturbing in the beginning. Working from home was challenging for everyone (Staff) but they all accepted and adapted to the situation very fast. It was understood that we have to change in the modern era and we started using modern tools to cope up. Balancing admin and household activities was overwhelming in the beginning. Students who are staying in remote locations have to come to internet connectivity issues. For final year students, exams are yet to be conducted. Some students are\u00a0 facing problems due to financial\u00a0 condition of their family ( parents)\u00a0 during the pandemic. Hostels have to be closed down therefore students had to leave for their hometowns.<\/li>\n

  2. How do you see digital technologies helping you overcome these challenges?<\/strong>
    \nDigital technologies have helped us immensely, to the extent\u00a0 that we do things , which\u00a0 we could not do earlier, we quickly started doing it. We started using Zoom, WebEx and Namaste (secured Indian Video Conferencing tool)\u00a0 for interactions. We started using every applicable applications,\u00a0 we could use such as E-Learning with google forms,\u00a0 WhatsApp etc. For Immediate communication with staff, teachers, group discussions \/ meetings, even students in remote places WhatsApp is very useful. It’s always available and easy to use.<\/li>\n
  3. Is it possible to do administrative work from the applications normally used in colleges ?<\/strong>
    \nNo, it is not possible with current applications. We depend on our staffs\u00a0 but they also don’t have all the information with them at home .\u00a0 We are managing all that we have in our email of personal PCs or laptops. This is certainly not the efficient way of working.    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n